This study presents an analysis of morphological case in Finnish within the Principles and Parameters framework. Finnish has a rich system of inflection for both case and agreement, making it an important language for testing hypotheses about the relationships between morphological case and abstract Case, and Case/case and agreement. The focus of the study is a set of syntactic environments where internal DP arguments appear in nominative case, but alternate with accusative personal pronouns. Because these environments lack an external argument coindexed with agreement, the data is particularly relevant to predictions made by Burzio's Generalization. By testing the generalization against a range of sentence types, Finnish is shown to contain an ergative split within an accusative main system. The assignment of the objective cases, accusative and partitive, is linked with the licensing of aspectual roles at D-structure, and finite Tense posited as a bi-unique Case assigner. The case split then arises as the result of two case features being assigned simultaneously to an internal argument, objective Case at D-structure associated with aspect, and nominative Case at S-structure associated with finite Tense where an external argument is not available. Morphological spell-out rules for particular argument types are proposed which determine the surface case realization of doubly-case assigned nominals.
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Finnish is a member of the Fennic branch of the Finno-Ugric language family, a group which includes Hungarian and Estonian as well as a number of related languages spoken by relatively small numbers of speakers in northern and western Russia and in the Baltic region. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak structural case, lower clause object, animate pronouns, structural default case, objective case assignment, nominative case feature, contentive elements, partitive case, lower clause subject, adverbial adjunct clauses, two case features, nominative case assignment, consonant gradation, possessive affixes, verbal agreement morphology, assigned nominative case, accusative case assignment, external argument, genitive subjects, assigned accusative case, nonpast tense, experiencer verbs, genitive pronouns, nominative objects, governing domain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Burzio's Generalization, Case Filter, Case Theory, Minimalist Program, Scottish Gaelic, Unaccusative Hypothesis, Finnish Pxes, Grannnatical Case Assignment, Granunatical Case Assignment, Projection Principle, Radical Functional Projection Hypothesis, Bha Calum, Grarnrnatical Case Assignment, Theta Theory New!
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Finnish is a member of the Fennic branch of the Finno-Ugric language family, a group which includes Hungarian and Estonian as well as a number of related languages spoken by relatively small numbers of speakers in northern and western Russia and in the Baltic region. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak structural case, lower clause object, animate pronouns, structural default case, objective case assignment, nominative case feature, contentive elements, partitive case, lower clause subject, adverbial adjunct clauses, two case features, nominative case assignment, consonant gradation, possessive affixes, verbal agreement morphology, assigned nominative case, accusative case assignment, external argument, genitive subjects, assigned accusative case, nonpast tense, experiencer verbs, genitive pronouns, nominative objects, governing domain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Burzio's Generalization, Case Filter, Case Theory, Minimalist Program, Scottish Gaelic, Unaccusative Hypothesis, Finnish Pxes, Grannnatical Case Assignment, Granunatical Case Assignment, Projection Principle, Radical Functional Projection Hypothesis, Bha Calum, Grarnrnatical Case Assignment, Theta Theory New!
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- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on 4 pages
- Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume I: Clause Structure (Language Typology & Syntactic Description) by Timothy Shopen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Relativized Minimality (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Luigi Rizzi on page 135, and Back Matter
- Features & Projections (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Pieter Muysken in Back Matter
- Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Robert Freidin in Back Matter
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